» By popular demand, and in support of Real Geeks Ride and their upcoming journey, this entry lives! I originally created this entry that read “Ignore. To be deleted soon.” to test a feedburner function. All it took was one eBay-ish comment to remind me that I’ve been wanting to write this for a while 
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Carlos Urreta and Joe Philipson – two self-proclaimed geeks from Hawaii – are setting on a 3,000+ mile journey across the U.S. to convince 1,000 geeks to ride their bikes to work instead of driving. Impressive!
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I wish I could recall where I first heard of these guys… perhaps it was a re-tweet or twitscoop find. Regardless, I’m personally hoping they’ll blog, gps and log their journey by photos as they go! Good luck!
Read moreI would have loved, wait… LOVED to have been able to attend the Web2.0 Summit. In fact I had an invite to meet someone there, but alas real life got in the way.
Moya Watson gives a great recap on her blog. Here are some highlights that I enjoyed from the recap:
Web meets the president
“Were it not for the Internet, Obama would not have been elected President,” said Arianna Huffington in Friday’s great panel, The Web and Politics (with John Heilemann, Arianna Huffington, Gavin Newsom, and Joe Trippi). “It wasn’t the age of the candidate that mattered in this election,” she continued, “It was the age of the ideas.”
Web meets (dirty) politics
We’ve just experienced the terrible flipside of “truth into our living rooms,” which is that the Internet can also be used, with devastating effectiveness, to spread attacks and lies into our living rooms. Here are some specific examples from the fight against Proposition 8 — all true:
- Videos propagated on YouTube in which the official “Yes” campaign equated gays with Hitler
- No On Prop 8’s Web site attacked by denial-of-service (which we overcame mightily, thanks to our Web techs)
- Personal attacks from people in the blogosphere throughout open, unmoderated threads (when another side might have had closed threads)
- Videos propagated by the official “Yes” campaign using children without their parents’ agreement or permission
- Gay people (and straight alike) getting anti-gay “Yes” ads served on their site because the yes campaign invested heavily in Google AdWords
Web meets TV
“TV is the biggest medium in America that hasn’t been democratized yet,” said @ev. “Twitter changes how people connect with people – if you expand that to a very large user base, it can change culture.” Pointing out that it’s not just social, Evan continued, “it has potential to see aggregate real-time information, like during the election.” Add Current TV to the mix and what happens?
“With Twitter and this broadcast model together, what happens is that you can get alternate viewpoints WHILE they’re being broadcast” -@ev
Green is the new Web
Calling himself a “recovering politician,” Al Gore took stage late at the summit to a standing ovation, saying that the “redeeming quality of the election” was that “all humans are created equal” and that this “would not have been possible without the Internet.”
Web meets the iPhone
AND more…. read the whole blog post and video/photos links here.
Hoping to get to the Web2.0 Expo in the spring. Anyone wanna’ go with??
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